Mutton is a common food on people's tables in northern my country during the winter season. As the saying goes: "Food must be matched with beautiful utensils, but medical treatment is not as good as dietotherapy." Mutton is warm in nature, qi and yin, warms the middle and supplements the deficiency, and appetites and strengthens the strength. In the Compendium of Materia Medica, it is called a warm tonic that supplements Yuan Yang and Qi. Warmth means warming and nourishing the human body. For example, the elderly are more afraid of cold in winter, and they will feel warm when eating mutton at the right time. This is recorded in Zhang Qiongzhi's "On Typhoid Diseases" and the "Qianjin Book" of the Tang Dynasty. It can be seen that mutton is the best food for people to supplement in winter.
The mutton meat is tender and contains high protein and rich vitamins. The fat melting point of sheep is 47 degrees Celsius. Because the human body temperature is 37 degrees Celsius, even if eaten, it will not be absorbed by the body and will not gain weight. The meat of mutton is delicate and easy to digest. Eating more mutton can only improve your physical fitness and improve your ability to fight diseases. There will be no other side effects, so now people often say: "If you want to live a long life, eat mutton often."
Suitable for the crowd:
Applicable to the general population.
Notes:
When referring to mutton, the Compendium of Materia Medica said: "Eating mutton with vinegar hurts people's hearts." The mutton is hot, and the vinegar is sweet and warm, which is similar to the wine. When the two things are cooked together, it is easy to make fire and move blood. Therefore, vinegar should not be added to mutton soup, and patients with poor heart function and blood diseases should pay special attention. According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Mutton is cooked in copper vessels: men lose yang, and women expose things; the difference in nature is such that you must not know." The reason for this is that when copper encounters acid or alkali and under high heat, it can undergo chemical changes to form copper salts. Mutton is a high-protein food. When the two are cooked together, certain toxic substances will be produced and endanger human health. Hepatitis patients eat too much mutton, can increase the burden on the liver, leading to disease. Drinking tea immediately after eating mutton is prone to constipation.
Yam is rich in cellulose, choline, mucus and other ingredients, can supply a large number of mucus protein needed by the human body, and this is a mixture of polysaccharide proteins, which has special health care effects on the human body. This mucus protein can prevent fat deposition in the cardiovascular system, maintain the elasticity of blood vessels, and prevent premature atherosclerosis; at the same time, it can also reduce subcutaneous fat accumulation and avoid obesity; and when this mucus polysaccharide is combined with inorganic salts, it can also form bone, making cartilage elastic and helping to prevent senile fractures.
Yams also have high medicinal value. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that mountain medicine is sweet and non-toxic. It has the effects of nourishing the spleen and kidney, nourishing the lungs, stopping diarrhea, and suppressing sweat. It is a good tonic "food medicine".
Eating some yam before tonic in autumn and winter is more conducive to the absorption of supplements. Yam is a medicine for replenishing the middle and replenishing the spleen and stomach. It has the effect of replenishing the spleen and stomach. It is especially suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach to eat before tonic.
Yams are a good helper for slimming, because yams contain less calories, more nutrients, and are rich in crude fiber, which easily increases people's feeling of satiety and plays a role in controlling the desire to eat. Moreover, the fat content of yam is very low, with only 0.2 grams of fat per 100 grams of yam, thus achieving the purpose of slimming down.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cold hands and feet are closely related to physical weakness, while yam has good effects in replenishing the middle, replenishing qi, and nourishing blood, making it especially suitable for patients with cold hands and feet in winter.
Yam has the effect of strengthening the spleen and replenishing qi. Therefore, patients with qi deficiency with excessive sweating and repeated colds should moderately increase their intake of yam in autumn and winter.
Suitable for the crowd:
Can be eaten by the general population.
Notes:
Yams have astringent effects, so those with dry stools should not eat them; in addition, those with real evil should not eat yam. Do not eat yam and kansui together; do not take it with alkaline drugs.
As for the nutrition of carrots, everyone knows. Carrots are known as 'little ginseng' and have extremely high nutritional value. They contain a large amount of carotene and plant fiber. In particular, the content of carotene ranks among the best among vegetables. Carotene has important effects such as maintaining the normal functions of epithelial cells, preventing and treating respiratory infections, promoting human growth and development, and participating in the synthesis of rhodopsin.
Notes:
Because carotene is a fat-soluble substance, it can only be well absorbed in oils. Therefore, when eating carrots, it is best to cook them with oil and eat them, or simmer them with meat to ensure that the active ingredients are absorbed and utilized by the human body.
Stewed mutton with yam and carrot
Recipe Recommendations
- yam 200 grams
- carrots appropriate amount
- coriander 1 piece
- salt 2 teaspoons
- onion appropriate amount
- ginger slices appropriate amount
- tangerine peel appropriate amount
- cooking wine appropriate amount
- chicken essence 1 small piece
Steps for Stewed mutton with yam and carrot
1
Wash the mutton and cut it into 2 cm square pieces; cut yams and carrots into the same size pieces (the cut yams should be soaked in clear water immediately, otherwise they will easily oxidize and turn black); cut coriander into small pieces; Cut white radish into large pieces for later use.
2
First of all, we must deal with the mutton first to remove the mutton smell and impurities. Poke some holes in the carrot pieces.
3
Pour clear water into the pan, put the mutton and carrot pieces into the pan to boil, cook for about 2-3 minutes and turn off the heat.
4
Remove the mutton, dump the radish and the water for boiling the mutton. This method of removing the mutton smell is very easy to use, and the processed mutton cannot taste the mutton smell at all.
5
Boil another pot of boiling water and add cooking wine, green onion segments, ginger slices, and tangerine peel.
6
Add the mutton, bring to a boil over high heat, and simmer over low heat for 40 minutes until the mutton is soft and tender.
7
Pour in the yam and carrot cubes and add salt.
8
Continue to stew until the yams and carrots are soft and rotten, add a little chicken essence to taste, and add coriander to enhance the aroma before starting the pan.Stewed mutton with yam and carrot Make Tips
Experience sharing: Several methods to remove the mutton smell: 1. Method to remove the mutton smell from radish: Poke the white radish into several holes, put it in cold water and cook it with the mutton, roll it off, remove the mutton, and cook it separately. Remove the mutton smell. 2. Method for removing mutton with mung bean: When cooking mutton, add a little mung bean to remove or reduce the mutton smell. 3. Cooking wine removing method: Wash the raw mutton several times in cold water, cut it into slices, shredded or small pieces and place it on a plate. Then use 50 grams of cooking wine, 25 grams of baking soda, 10 grams of salt, and 10 grams of white sugar per 500 grams of mutton. Mix well with 5 grams of monosodium glutamate and 250 grams of water. After the mutton fully absorbs the seasoning, take 3 egg whites and 50 grams of starch and size for later use. After some time, cooking wine and baking soda can fully remove the mutton smell. 4. Method for removing mutton with medicinal ingredients: When cooking mutton, wrap the crushed cloves, amomum, cardamom, perilla, etc. with gauze and cook them together. Not only can the mutton remove the mutton, but also give the mutton a unique flavor. 5. Soak mutton removal method: Soak mutton in cold water for 2-3 days and change the water twice a day to leach out ammonia substances in the mutton sarcoplasmic protein, which can also reduce the mutton odor. 6. Method for removing mutton from orange peels: When stewing mutton, put a few dried orange peels in the pan, boil for a period of time, remove them and discard them. Then add a few dried orange peels and continue cooking. You can also remove the mutton smell. 7. Method for removing mutton from walnuts: Select a few high-quality walnuts, break them, and put them into a pot and cook them with mutton to remove mutton. 8. Hawthorn method for removing mutton: Cooking hawthorn and mutton together has a very good effect on removing the mutton smell.